[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Technology review presentations - Web clients

[Mauricio Miranda]

I sent an email to him. Now, we must wait for an answer. I'll keep you
informed about it.

On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 08:07 +1000, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> German Carillo has been building a gis web client comparison which will 
> make a good basis for a foss4g presentation here:
> 
> http://geotux.tuxfamily.org/index.php?option=com_myblog&task=view&id=239&Itemid=59&lang=en
> 
> Does anyone know how to contact German so that we can thank him, and 
> invite him to participate in a FOSS4G presentation?
> 
> Who else would be available to help out with a browser comparison for 
> the various projects?
> 
> Cameron Shorter wrote:
> > Abstracts for FOSS4G are due next Thursday 15 April 2010 and I'm 
> > hoping that we will see abstracts for:
> >
> > * LiveDVD lightening overview
> > * WMS/WFS/WCS Shootout
> > * Desktop comparison
> > * Browser Client comparison
> > * Database comparison
> >
> > I predict that these presentations will be by far the most popular 
> > presentations of the conference. Further, I'm expecting to incorporate 
> > results onto the LiveDVD. They will be a lot of effort to prepare, 
> > partly because they will need a team of project developers to 
> > contribute to it, and consequently, unless we get our act together 
> > soon, I suspect that no-one will submit presentations for some of the 
> > topics above.
> >
> > So I encourage people to respond to the following targeted email 
> > threads, noting your intention to help and be part of one of the 
> > presentation teams. (Note, the presentation will be the easy bit, the 
> > hard bit will be collating the material for the presentation).
> >
> > A good team for these comparison projects will consist of:
> >
> > * a representative from each project in the comparison. These types of 
> > comparisons will be the first place new users will go when researching 
> > software, so are well worth participating in.
> > * users who have used more than one of the applications
> > * anyone involved in related comparison reviews, or development of 
> > feature tables or similar
> > * coordinator/"get it done" people who can pull it all together
> > * people who can speak well, and efficiently. (You will have lots of 
> > material to present is a short time)
> >
> 

-- 
Mauricio Miranda
Software Engineering Manager
www.xoomcode.com